Thursday, December 18, 2014

Tic Tac Toe - Christmas (Challenge #250) Winner and top 5

Hello Magnolia friends!

We are running a little behind on annoucing the winner from our Tic Tac Toe Christmas Challenge, sorry!

 
Tildas Town was our fab sponsor for this challenge,
with a wonderful $10 voucher:

And the winner iiiiiisssss....


#18 - Vicky
 
What a great work hun, gorgeous creation!
  Please write us at magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to claim your prize and feel free to grab our winner badge that you can see here on our sidebar :D
 
And now for our top 5!
In no particular order we have:

#1 - Annette
#4 - Beth
#8 - Tiziana
#17- Tamika
#11 - Becky

Grab your top5 blinkie from our sidebar and show it with pride on your blogs to tell everyone how much we love your creations!
If you would like to enter into our current challenge (Anything goes) click here please, we have a pair of prizes to be won: one will be selected by random and another one will be chosen by the DT gals!
 
A big hug to you all,

Franz and the MDUC team

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Challenge #251 Anything Goes

Hi and Welcome to our Last Challenge of 2014!!!

We will be back next year with more fun challenge themes for you all to play along with. Next year we will also have Magnolia Down Under's 6th Birthday! Along with that, a bunch of our Design Team girls will have their 5th anniversary of being on our Design Team - WOW!!!

We would love to thank our Sponsors, (past and present) and entrants for their continued support of Magnolia Down Under Challenges, without you guys there probably would not be a challenge!

Our awesome Design Team would like to wish each and everyone of you a safe and very Merry Christmas and a Wonderful New Year!!!


So we have a fantastic challenge for you - but first up - our amazing sponsors:

Live and Love Crafts!
Winner chosen by our DT

If the words vintage and shabby chic makes your heart beat faster, you will find your haven at Live & Love Crafts! 

Live & Love Crafts is a UK based online store that ships WORLDWIDE. The store is owned and operated by Sandra Mathis, a crafter who is as passionate about the vintage style as she is about customer service and providing a good shopping experience. Live & Love Crafts prides itself on having a website that is easy to navigate with excellent product images. Orders are dispatched fast; usually on the same day received.

Live & Love Crafts stocks a wide range of products from well-loved vintage brands such as Maja Design, Pion Design, Magnolia, Wild Orchid Crafts, Kort & Godt, Prima, Melissa Frances, Maya Road, and the Tim Holtz/Ranger product lines.

The store has a vast selection of laces, ribbons and trims, an assortment of over 200 charms and metal decorations, as well as many other unique embellishments that you can't find elsewhere. To help you save on costs, the charms/metal decos can be purchased singularly and all trims and ribbons are sold by the yard/meter. If you’re looking for products that will inspire and a one stop paper & embellishment shop, look no further than Live & Love Crafts!

And 
Magnolia
The winner of this prize will be picked by Random Org.!

Thank you so much Magnolia for generously sponsoring us with a 
"Surprise" pack to a lucky winner!


Thank you Sandy and Magnolia! 
******************************************
Our Theme for the last Challenge is........
ANYTHING GOES!!!!


















Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Holly and Bells (Challenge #249) Winner and top 5

Hi everybody MDUC friends!

Thank you to all of you who entered our "Holly and Bells" challenge, we loved all your entries so much!

So we have two winners this week, the first one is chosen by random and is kindly offered by


Thank you so much Magnolia Sweden!


Congratulations Tamika!
  Please write us at magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to claim your prize and feel free to grab our winner badge that you can see here on our sidebar :D

Our second prize is a  £10 voucher from our loved Live and Love Crafts




Thank you Sandy for being always soooo kind!

...and this is our choice...:





Anna it's you!
We loved your shabby colouring and design!
Please write us at magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to arrange about your prize :)

well, now here are our favourites projects, our fab top5:

#12 - Jane
#15 - Davinia
#17 - Beatriz
#25 - Tamika
#30 - Samantha 

Grab your top5 blinkie from our sidebar and show it with proud on your blogs to tell everyone how much we love your creations!
If you would like to enter into our current challenge (Tic Tac Toe Christmas) click here please, we have a lovely prize to be won chosen by the DT gals!


A big hug to you all,

Franz and the MDUC team

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Challenge #250 Tic Tac Toe - Christmas

Hello and welcome back to Magnolia Down Under Challenges!

This week we have a fun Tic Tac Toe board with a twist for you....
but first - lets welcome our fabulous sponsor:

Our sponsor this week is: 

Tilda's Town is giving away a $10 voucher to our choice winner!
Thank you so much Tilda's Town.


Our challenge this week is
Tic Tac Toe - with a Christmas theme!
We hope you have a heap of fun with it....



Everything on the game board!


(Tags, Jingle Bells, Lace and Ribbons, and
Masking, Red and White, Paint)


(Snowflakes, glitter/stickles, doohickey dies)


(Glitter, Jingle Bells, Red & White)




HOW TO JOIN IN...
  • You must have at least one Magnolia stamp or Doo Hickey die on your work, it can be a sentiment, background etc does NOT have to be Edwin or Tilda for your card to be entered..
  • You must add your link in Mr.Linky
  • You MUST add a link to your **direct blog post***.... All entries not doing this will be removed.
  • You should have a link back to the challenge blog in your post.
  • Entries close 8:00am Saturday AES time (see the clock on the side bar)
  • DO NOT link your entry to an old card, even a day before will be removed. Making it fair to all the people that have made a card for the challenge...
  • We reserve the right to remove your entry if we feel it is not appropriate. We are a FUN challenge that is designed for MAGNOLIA FANS and any entry that is not deemed to be 'playing nice' will be deleted. We apologise for the need to add this rule. This is OUR challenge blog and we reserve the right to moderate entries. 






Friday, November 28, 2014

Inspirational Photo (Challenge #248) Winner and top 5

Hello Magnolia friends!
We are running a little behind on annoucing the winner from our Inspirational Photo challenge. I am terribly sorry for that - I've just moved house and not had an internet connection.
But don't fear - the winners post is here. 

Our fantastic sponsor for this challenge was 
Tildas Town with a wonderful $10 voucher:



And the winners..... drum roll......
It is an amazing creation! Congratulations Carla!
Please write us at magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to arrange about your prize :)

And now for our top 5!
In no particular order we have:

#8 - Louise
#4 - Tamika
#33 - Stoeffchen
#3 - Pona
#2 - Anna

Grab your top5 blinkie from our sidebar and show it with pride on your blogs to tell everyone how much we love your creations!
If you would like to enter into our current challenge click here pleasewe have a pair of prizes to be won: one will be selected by random and another one will be chosen by the DT gals!

A big hug to you all,

Kylie and the MDUC team

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Challenge #249 Holly and Bells

Welcome back to Magnolia Down Under Challenges!

Is the Christmas season sneaking up on you as well?
Oh my goodness - over here my family is in the middle of moving house as well - yes, we totally picked the time to do it! Argh!! Anyway, in a week or so it will all be done and I can settle back into my craft room and get cracking.....

This week we have a fantastic challenge for you - but first up - our amazing sponsors:

Live and Love Crafts!
Winner chosen by our DT

If the words vintage and shabby chic makes your heart beat faster, you will find your haven at Live & Love Crafts! 

Live & Love Crafts is a UK based online store that ships WORLDWIDE. The store is owned and operated by Sandra Mathis, a crafter who is as passionate about the vintage style as she is about customer service and providing a good shopping experience. Live & Love Crafts prides itself on having a website that is easy to navigate with excellent product images. Orders are dispatched fast; usually on the same day received.

Live & Love Crafts stocks a wide range of products from well-loved vintage brands such as Maja Design, Pion Design, Magnolia, Wild Orchid Crafts, Kort & Godt, Prima, Melissa Frances, Maya Road, and the Tim Holtz/Ranger product lines.

The store has a vast selection of laces, ribbons and trims, an assortment of over 200 charms and metal decorations, as well as many other unique embellishments that you can't find elsewhere. To help you save on costs, the charms/metal decos can be purchased singularly and all trims and ribbons are sold by the yard/meter. If you’re looking for products that will inspire and a one stop paper & embellishment shop, look no further than Live & Love Crafts!

And 
Magnolia! 
Thank you so much Magnolia for generously sponsoring us with a 
"Surprise" pack to a lucky winner!


Thank you Sandy and Magnolia! 
******************************************

Our challenge is week is:
Holly and Bells

Lets see what our fabulous DT have done with the theme:











HOW TO JOIN IN...
  • You must have at least one Magnolia stamp or Doo Hickey die on your work, it can be a sentiment, background etc does NOT have to be Edwin or Tilda for your card to be entered..
  • You must add your link in Mr.Linky
  • You MUST add a link to your **direct blog post***.... All entries not doing this will be removed.
  • You should have a link back to the challenge blog in your post.
  • Entries close SUNDAY EVENING 11pm AES time  (the following week  see the clock on the side bar)
  • DO NOT link your entry to an old card, even a day before will be removed. Making it fair to all the people that have made a card for the challenge...
  • We reserve the right to remove your entry if we feel it is not appropriate. We are a FUN challenge that is designed for MAGNOLIA FANS and any entry that is not deemed to be 'playing nice' will be deleted. We apologise for the need to add this rule. This is OUR challenge blog and we reserve the right to moderate 






Thursday, November 6, 2014

Spring Fling (Challenge #247) - Winner and Top5

Hi everybody MDUC friends!

Thank you to all of you who entered our "Spring Fling" challenge, we loved all your entries so much!

So we have two winners this week, the first one is chosen by random and is kindly offered by


Thank you so much Magnolia Sweden!

Congratulations Hazel!
  Please write us at magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to claim your prize and feel free to grab our winner badge that you can see here on our sidebar :D

Our second prize is a  £10 voucher from our loved Live and Love Crafts




Thank you Sandy for being always soooo kind!

...and this is our choice...:



Elena it's you!
Stunning and original creation, we loved your fab colouring and any lovely little detail!
Please write us at magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to arrange about your prize :)

well, now here are our favourites projects, our fab top5:

#12 - Nancie
#15 - Tamika
#21 - Julie P
#29 - Kiki Foe
#13 - Tanja 

Grab your top5 blinkie from our sidebar and show it with proud on your blogs to tell everyone how much we love your creations!
If you would like to enter into our current challenge (Inspirational Photo - Christmas) click here please, we have a lovely prize to be won chosen by the DT gals!


A big hug to you all,

Franz and the MDUC team

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Challenge #248 Inspirational Photo - Christmas

Welcome back to Magnolia Down Under Challenges!

Thank you so much for playing along with our last challenge, we have another fun challenge for you today, but first, lets see who our wonderful sponsor is:

Our sponsor this week is: 

Tilda's Town is giving away a $10 voucher to our choice winner!
Thank you so much Tilda's Town.

The challenge this fortnight is:
An Inspirational Photo:


Lets see what our amazing DT have to share with you:



Tanja


Ashlee




HOW TO JOIN IN...
  • You must have at least one Magnolia stamp or Doo Hickey die on your work, it can be a sentiment, background etc does NOT have to be Edwin or Tilda for your card to be entered..
  • You must add your link in Mr.Linky
  • You MUST add a link to your **direct blog post***.... All entries not doing this will be removed.
  • You should have a link back to the challenge blog in your post.
  • Entries close 8:00am Saturday AES time (see the clock on the side bar)
  • DO NOT link your entry to an old card, even a day before will be removed. Making it fair to all the people that have made a card for the challenge...
  • We reserve the right to remove your entry if we feel it is not appropriate. We are a FUN challenge that is designed for MAGNOLIA FANS and any entry that is not deemed to be 'playing nice' will be deleted. We apologise for the need to add this rule. This is OUR challenge blog and we reserve the right to moderate entries. 


Friday, October 24, 2014

Recipe (Challenge #246) - Winner and Top5

Hi everybody Magnolia Friends!

Here I'm again with a new winner post here at MDUC;
Our winner will receive a $10 voucher from our kindly and wonderful sponsor:



...are you ready?




Charlotte it's you!
Gorgeous tag sweetie! We loved the original structure and the delicate colour combo!
Please write us at magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to arrange about your prize :)


Thank you so much Tilda's Town form being our sponsor again this week ♥



well, now here are our favourites projects, we have a fab top5 this forthnight:

#6 - Davinia
#10 - Betty CH
#5 -Tanja
#4 - Tiziana
#3 - Marika


Grab your top5 blinkie from our sidebar and show it with proud on your blogs to tell everyone how much we love your creations!
If you would like to enter into our current challenge (Spring Fling) click here please, we have a pair of prizes to be won: one will be selected by random and another one will be chosen by the DT gals!


A big hug to you all,

Franz and the MDUC team

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Challenge #247 Spring Fling

Good morning Friends!
Welcome back to Magnolia Down Under Challenges. 


This week we have a fantastic challenge for you - but first up - our amazing sponsors:

Live and Love Crafts!
Winner chosen by our DT

If the words vintage and shabby chic makes your heart beat faster, you will find your haven at Live & Love Crafts! 

Live & Love Crafts is a UK based online store that ships WORLDWIDE. The store is owned and operated by Sandra Mathis, a crafter who is as passionate about the vintage style as she is about customer service and providing a good shopping experience. Live & Love Crafts prides itself on having a website that is easy to navigate with excellent product images. Orders are dispatched fast; usually on the same day received.

Live & Love Crafts stocks a wide range of products from well-loved vintage brands such as Maja Design, Pion Design, Magnolia, Wild Orchid Crafts, Kort & Godt, Prima, Melissa Frances, Maya Road, and the Tim Holtz/Ranger product lines.

The store has a vast selection of laces, ribbons and trims, an assortment of over 200 charms and metal decorations, as well as many other unique embellishments that you can't find elsewhere. To help you save on costs, the charms/metal decos can be purchased singularly and all trims and ribbons are sold by the yard/meter. If you’re looking for products that will inspire and a one stop paper & embellishment shop, look no further than Live & Love Crafts!

And 
Magnolia! 
Thank you so much Magnolia for generously sponsoring us with a 
"Surprise" pack to a lucky winner!


Thank you Sandy and Magnolia! 
******************************************

Our challenge this fortnight is:
SPRING FLING!

Our DT has done amazing work for this challenge, I am in loooove with all of the amazing cards they've created for us.... so lets check them out!

Jane


Kathrin


Tanja


Franz


HOW TO JOIN IN...
  • You must have at least one Magnolia stamp or Doo Hickey die on your work, it can be a sentiment, background etc does NOT have to be Edwin or Tilda for your card to be entered..
  • You must add your link in Mr.Linky
  • You MUST add a link to your **direct blog post***.... All entries not doing this will be removed.
  • You should have a link back to the challenge blog in your post.
  • Entries close SUNDAY EVENING 11pm AES time  (the following week  see the clock on the side bar)
  • DO NOT link your entry to an old card, even a day before will be removed. Making it fair to all the people that have made a card for the challenge...
  • We reserve the right to remove your entry if we feel it is not appropriate. We are a FUN challenge that is designed for MAGNOLIA FANS and any entry that is not deemed to be 'playing nice' will be deleted. We apologise for the need to add this rule. This is OUR challenge blog and we reserve the right to moderate 



Thursday, October 9, 2014

Distressing (Challenge #245) - Winner and Top5

Hi everybody MDUC friends!

Thank you to all of you who entered our "Distressing" challenge, we loved all your entries so much!

So we have two winners this week, the first one is chosen by random and is kindly offered by


Thank you so much Magnolia Sweden!




Congratulations Renate!
  Please write us at magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to claim your prize and feel free to grab our winner badge that you can see here on our sidebar :D

Our second prize is a  £10 voucher from our loved Live and Love Crafts




Thank you Sandy for being always soooo kind!

...and this is our choice...:
 

Anna it's you!
Gorgeous creation, so rich in any detail and we loved so much the colour combo you chosen and your wonderful colouring!
Please write us at magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to arrange about your prize :)

well, now here are our favourites projects, our fab top5:

#38 - Tamika
#48 - Evie
#20 - Louise
#35 - Barbara GR
#30 - Pona 

Grab your top5 blinkie from our sidebar and show it with proud on your blogs to tell everyone how much we love your creations!
If you would like to enter into our current challenge (Recipe: Yellow, pink, lace and pearls!) click here please, we have a lovely prize to be won chosen by the DT gals!


A big hug to you all,

Franz and the MDUC team